Toyo Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.

Tatsuya Fujita

Noriyuki Sato

Kazuyoshi Masaki

Kengo Sakaguchi

Fumio Sugawara

Takayuki Yamazaki

Keisuke Ohta

Hiroeki Sahara

Kotaro Nakayama

Noriko Asano

Mika Takenouchi

A method for treating an adenocarcinoma excluding colon cancer, lung cancer and gastric cancer, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof and suffering from adenocarcinoma cancer, a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one sulfoquinovosylacylglycerol compound represented by formula (1): wherein Rrepresents an acyl residue of an unsaturated higher fatty acid, and Rrepresents a hydrogen atom, and/or at least one pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Method for treating cancer

A method for treating a cancer. The cancer excluding an adenocarcinoma and being epithelioma, glioma, sarcoma, melanoma, lymphoma or leukemia; or the cancer is an adenocarcinoma cancer excluding colon cancer, lung cancer and gastric cancer. The method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof and suffering from cancer, a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one sulfoquinovosylacylglycerol compound represented by formula (1): wherein Rrepresents an acyl residue of an unsaturated fatty acid and Rrepresents a hydrogen atom and/or at least one pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

An immunosuppressive agent comprising, as an effective ingredient, at least one compound selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by general formula (1) below and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof:wherein Rrepresents an acyl residue of a higher fatty acid, and Rrepresents a hydrogen atom or acyl residue of a higher fatty acid.

Immunosuppressive agent

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Sulfoquinovosylacylglycerol derivative, and use thereof as medicaments

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Sapporo, Japan

Tatsuya Fujita